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June 2016
Pre-kickoff project meeting
Meeting with project partners to discuss preparations for the UnBias project start in September 2016.
Find out more »September 2016
UnBias project kick-off meeting
Meeting to officially launch the UnBias project. The meeting will allow the researchers who were newly recruited for the UnBias project at each of the three sites (Nottingham, Oxford and Edinburgh) to get to know the partners at the other institutions. Items on the agenda will include ]: setting/confirmation of dates for future project meetings presentation of work plans for each of the project work-packages sharing of material and ideas that could be of interest to the partners
Find out more »November 2016
UnBias: Emancipating Young Users Against Algorithmic Biases
This workshop has been designed for 13 to 24 years old interested in understanding how the internet works. Contrary to public opinion, young people care about their personal data and want a digital world more transparent, a digital world they can trust. Little is know, for example, about how Amazon is able to tailor advertisements and recommend products that are actually interesting for potential online customers, or how Facebook decides which news Facebook users may be more inclined to read.…
Find out more »UnBias: Emancipating Young Users Against Algorithmic Biases
This workshop has been designed for 13 to 24 years old interested in understanding how the internet works. Contrary to public opinion, young people care about their personal data and want a digital world more transparent, a digital world they can trust. Little is know, for example, about how Amazon is able to tailor advertisements and recommend products that are actually interesting for potential online customers, or how Facebook decides which news Facebook users may be more inclined to read.…
Find out more »SATORI Mutual Learning Workshop on Ethics Assessment of Research and Innovation
24 November 2016, 0900-1700 GMT. Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE, UK The SATORI project will organise a one-day mutual-learning workshop on 24 November 2016, at the Wellcome Collection, London. At this workshop, SATORI partners will present the project’s preliminary findings, and discuss, particularly with organisations engaged in ethics assessment and related practices (e.g. ethics review, institutional review, corporate social responsibility in relation to R&I), how to move forward. The workshop will address: the institutional landscape for ethics…
Find out more »Libel, Privacy, Data Protection and Online Legal Action A Practitioner’s Guide
Legal training half day seminar on internet law organized by the Belfast Solicitors’ Association (“BSA”), in cooperation with the Bar of Northern Ireland. AGENDA: 12.30 – 1pm LUNCH WELCOME NOTE: @ 1PM (3 mins) Chairman Bar Council Liam McCollum QC / Chairman BSA Olivia O’Kane (5 mins) KEY NOTE: (30- 45 mins?) Honourable Mr Justice Stephens – INSERT TALK TITLE INSERT TALK TITLE (15-20) Olivia O’Kane, Solicitor Defamation Practice-Some Reminiscences and Lessons Learnt (15-20) David Ringland QC 2.40pm REFRESHMENTS Responsibility…
Find out more »Workshop/The Ethics of Machine Learning in Professional Practice
This workshop is by application or invitation only. Limited places. If you are interested in attending, please see information below. Deadline : 30 October 2016 The Ethics of Using Machine Learning in Professional Practice: Perspectives from Journalism, Law and Medicine. This workshop aims to bring together practitioners from law, journalism and bio-medicine together with social scientists and computer scientists to explore the ethical questions raised by the growing use of machine learning in processes of information discovery, analysis and decision-making.…
Find out more »December 2016
Responsible Governance for Healthy and Sustainable Smart Platforms: Policy directions for the collaborative economy
Smart online platforms will be a vital enabler of future economic growth across the EU and a key component of the EU single digital market. They also promise new ways to pool and mobilise society’s resources with the potential to address various impending social and environmental crises. However, to reap these benefits, new thinking is required around the regulation and governance of smart online platforms to ensure balanced interests, and to promote fair and safe forms of participation, particularly relating…
Find out more »January 2017
Launch of 5Rights Youth Juries report at House of Lords
You are invited to join us for the launch of a groundbreaking report that articulates the voice of children and young people, and their relationship to the internet and digital technologies; The Internet On Our Own Terms How Children and Young People Deliberated about their Digital Rights 6 – 8pm Tuesday 31st January 2017 Committee Room 3A House of Lords London, SW1A 0PW Speakers; Baroness Beeban Kidron, Prof. Stephen Coleman, Dr. Elvira Perez Vallejos and youth jurors, followed by a…
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